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Learn Ansible

By : Russ McKendrick
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Learn Ansible

By: Russ McKendrick

Overview of this book

Ansible has grown from a small, open source orchestration tool to a full-blown orchestration and configuration management tool owned by Red Hat. Its powerful core modules cover a wide range of infrastructures, including on-premises systems and public clouds, operating systems, devices, and services—meaning it can be used to manage pretty much your entire end-to-end environment. Trends and surveys say that Ansible is the first choice of tool among system administrators as it is so easy to use. This end-to-end, practical guide will take you on a learning curve from beginner to pro. You'll start by installing and configuring the Ansible to perform various automation tasks. Then, we'll dive deep into the various facets of infrastructure, such as cloud, compute and network infrastructure along with security. By the end of this book, you'll have an end-to-end understanding of Ansible and how you can apply it to your own environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we have looked at using Ansible in combination with Docker to launch two different tools that performed an external vulnerability scan against the WordPress installation we launched using an Ansible playbook. This shows how we can launch some quite complex tools without having to worry about writing a playbook to install, configure, and manage them directly on our hosts.

In the next chapter, we are going to move off the command line and look at the two web-based interfaces for Ansible provided by Red Hat.